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Feb 9 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
#BREAKING Eritrea leader calls Tigray rights abuse allegations a 'fantasy'
#UPDATE Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said Thursday that allegations of rights abuses by Eritrean troops in Ethiopia's Tigray region during the two-year war there amounted to "fantasy".
Map of Ethiopia locating the Tigray region.
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#UPDATE Eritrea's army supported Ethiopian forces during the war against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

The war ended with a peace deal signed in November last year, but Eritrea was not a party to the agreement.

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VIDEO: Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, who is visiting Nairobi, calls Tigray rights abuse allegations a "fantasy of those who want to derail any peace process achieving its goal"
#UPDATE Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said Thursday that allegations of rights abuses by Eritrean troops in Ethiopia's Tigray region during the two-year war there amounted to "fantasy".
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Rescuers pulled children alive Friday from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the toll surpassed 22,000 and bitter cold compounded the suffering of the homeless.
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VIDEO: Ukrainian rescuers arrive in Turkey.

Rescuers from the Ukrainian emergency services set up a "tent city" in the city of Antakya, Turkey, to begin search and rescue operations after the deadly earthquake that claimed thousands of victims in the region
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#BREAKING Death toll rises above 20,000 in Turkey, Syria quake ImageImage
#BREAKING World Bank to provide Turkey $1.78 billion for recovery after earthquake Image
#UPDATE The death toll from the huge quake in Turkey & Syria climbed dramatically Thursday, topping 20,000 as the 1st UN aid reached Syrian rebel-held areas but hopes of finding more survivors faded.
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#BREAKING US welcomes as 'positive' Nicaragua's release of more than 200 political prisoners, says decision made by Managua Image
#UPDATE More than 200 detained members of Nicaragua's opposition were heading to the United States on Thursday after being freed by the government of President Daniel Ortega (pic, left), family members and opposition figures said ▶️ u.afp.com/im4s ImageImage
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China's foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning says Beijing is "strongly dissatisfied"
#UPDATE Beijing on Thursday condemned US President Joe Biden for what it called "extremely irresponsible" remarks in which he said his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping faced "enormous problems" ▶️ u.afp.com/im4N
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#BREAKING Death toll rises to above 15,800 in Turkey, Syria quake: officials
#BREAKING Death toll rises to over 16,000 from a huge earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, as rescuers race to reach survivors stuck under rubble in freezing weather.

Officials and medics say 12,873 people died in Turkey and 3,162 in Syria from Monday's 7.8-magnitude quake
#UPDATE Twitter back online in Turkey after block.

Twitter was blocked for at least 12 hours on major Turkish mobile providers in an outage that ended early Thursday, following a flurry of online criticism of the government's response to the deadly quake

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